Chapter 48: Baldy

The wind sweeping across the wasteland still carried sand, as always. The hound model, with its mechanized left leg removed, crackled in the gusts as though it were barking. Listening to that sound, I put on my headset and hat. Tooth uses a parasitic organism that attaches directly to the brain to transmit signals immune to the influence of Tree Crystals. I couldn’t bring myself to have something like that embedded in my head, so like the other human mercenaries, I let the creature latch onto…